Thanks to everyone who wrote in and came to Friday’s hearing to speak up for the “boulevard” option on Masonic Avenue — it was approved! This redesign will narrow the street to calm traffic, widen sidewalks at bus stops, install tree-planted medians, and improve crossings. It goes next to the MTA Board.

Walk SF held a workshop on Market Street in January — now the city is holding two more to get ideas about how to revitalize Market Street from Octavia to the Embarcadero. The goal of the project is ambitious: to reestablish the street as the premier cultural, civic and economic center of San Francisco and the Bay Area.

Share and discuss your ideas with urban designers and transit, bike, and pedestrian mobility experts. How can we make the backbone of our city into a place that is green, welcoming, lively, and easy to get around?

See the street in a whole new way! The San Francisco Department of Public Health has created a new and improved Pedestrian Environmental Quality Index (PEQI). At this workshop, participants will learn about the PEQI tool, then spend the afternoon collecting data about SF streets. The data will be used to refine the tool and participants will learn to become sharp-eyed advocates for better pedestrian conditions.